doctors at our medical university hospital confirmed a few hours ago that former japanese prime minister shinzo abe has died after being shot twice, once in the chest and once in the neck while speaking at a campaign rally ahead of the upper house elections set for this sunday. doctors treating abe said he was bleeding profusely and the bullet that killed him was deep enough to have reached his heart. in the end, about 20 doctors were fighting to save his life, they said they faced difficulties stopping the bleeding, and it was that loss of blood that abe died from. now, the shooting happened while delivering a speech around 11:30 this morning, local time, in the western japanese city of nara. several hours after the shooting, a visibly emotional fumio kishida, the current prime minister, held a press conference calling the shooting an unforgivable act. abe's brother and minister of defense nobuo kishi also

addressed the media calling the attack an affront to democracy and freedom to speech. the suspect, a man in his 40s, was arrested on the spot, in possession of what nhk is describing as a handmade gun. he made no attempt to flee before being swarmed by the security detail. witnesses say abe was shot from behind, he didn't collapse after the first shot, but did collapse after the second shot before receiving cpr. while controversial figure here in japan at times, abe is an incredibly important figure, not only here in japan, but around the world, and news of this shooting has absolutely sent shock waves around the nation, and the world. hours following this shooting, many have taken to social media to say that they hoped at the time that he would pull through with many calling today's shooting a barbaric act that shakes the root of democracy, saying that whether or not you agree with this political stances, violence to suppress political stances is unacceptable. and i mentioned it earlier, but

current prime minister fumio kishida encapsulated the feelings of the people here in japan during the press conference after the shooting. he appeared emotional, almost in tears, while speaking to the press, and said, again, this is not a forgivable, and that we will comprehend the situation and then take appropriate measures. simply put, john, there is an overwhelming sense of sadness and shock across japan, and around the world today, tomorrow, this weekend, after hearing and learning the news that former prime minister shinzo abe has died. >> absolutely, blake essig, please stand by in tokyo for us. thank you very much. >> the death of shinzo abe marks the end of an era in japanese and asian politics. abe had hoped to revitalize japan's economy during his recent eight-year run as prime minister. he was only partly successful with that. cnn's senior international correspondent will ripley looks back at the life and the legacy of japan's elder statesman.

>> reporter: japan's longest serving prime minister, shinzo abe, had big dreams of a japanese comeback. a comeback marred by a series of setbacks. the tokyo 2020 olympics, abe's greatest achievement, japan spent billions only to see the games postponed by the coronavirus pandemic, the games were a cornerstone of abe's plan to revive a struggling economy, and transform japan into a global destination. abe promised a brighter future, a future looking bleak after 2011's massive earthquake, tsunami, and fukushima nuclear meltdown. abenomics was an ambitious plan to overhaul japan's economy with stimulus and reform, and it led to record high government debt, and failed to make a lasting dent in decades of deflation. problems made worse by japan's aging population, and shrinking

workforce. abe also tried to strengthen japan's military, reinterpreting the nation's pacifist constitution, drafted after world war ii. the move led to massive protests in the japanese capital. abe's visits to a controversial war shrine angered his asian neighbors. he was criticized for not making a new apology at the 70th anniversary of world war ii, accused of trying to rewrite japan's brutal war time past. abe began fighting for more military power during his first time as prime minister in 2006. at 52, he became japan's youngest post war leader. corruption scandals within his party caused the popularity to plummet. he resigned a year later, blaming health problems. abe had ambition and roots in a powerful political dynasty. two prime ministers in his family.

re-elected in 2012, abe declared japan is back. he tried to raise japan's profile on a global stage, developing allies in europe, india, and southeast asia, trying to mend frosty relations with china. abe made history in 2016, appearing alongside former u.s. president barack obama in hiroshima and later pearl harbor. >> the united states and japan. >> reporter: abe was one of the first world leaders to form an alliance with donald trump, taking the u.s. president out for a hamburger in tokyo. shinzo abe leaves behind akia, known as a vibrant and popular first lady, and his wife of more than three decades. >> and will ripley joins us now, also cnn's kyung lah, based in japan for five years for cnn. you both were based there. and, will, let me start with you, when we're speaking to people in japan this morning, just shock, just shock that this could even happen there.

>> yeah. politics aside, critics of shinzo abe aside, nobody could have imagined that he would be standing, giving a stump speech, a couple of days before a national election and that somebody could get that close and could fire of all things a gun. when guns are simply not accessible to pretty much everybody in japan, unless they are a hunter and they go through a very extensive screening process. you can walk through the streets and kyung can testify to this for her years living in tokyo, any hour of the day, you're never going to feel unsafe. and to be in the middle of the morning, and to have somebody pull out a gun and assassinate perhaps the most influential figure in japanese politics to date, certainly longest running prime minister, but still highly influential, even after resigning as prime minister, you know, shock is an understatement. it is almost numb, trying to piece together, put your head around what has just happened. >> i mean, kyung, i remember

visiting you years ago in tokyo and that was one of the things that stood out, small children, even in the evening, may be walking around as they were going to lessons and they were completely safe, even in theed m my middle of what felt like a busy and vibrant city and you would. plain there wasn't so much danger. >> not at all. and i think it is really important as especially as americans for us to understand what the violence figures look like in japan. i was just looking at what the police statistics were in 2021, there were fewer than a dozen shootings in japan. in a country with half the population of the united states. half the population, there was one gun death in 2021. it just doesn't happen. and so for this to happen, to the former prime minister, a man who was so influential, that the economics system he ushered, abenomics, was named after him. he really stood apart from a lot

of modern figures in japan, for many, many reasons. but that this happened to him, and in a country that doesn't have this experience, it is truly shocking. you don't have kids doing drills in schools. you don't worry about anyone carrying a handgun, because they don't have any. it is just something you don't live with. and if i were living there, i would send, a kid as young as 5 or 6 years old, i had both of my children in japan, i would send them on the subway by themselves. it is just that safe. it is also part of the social fabric to take care of each other, for people to not rob you. if you drop something on the street, people return it to the police. police who generally are not armed, they carry large sticks and cobans, the local boxes that people ask directions from the police from, it is a different world compared to what we experienced here in the united states, and that really is what is so shocking in japan.

>> kyung, what do you think the impact then of this will be? or what will you be looking for in the coming hours and days? >> it's -- i think there is going to be a number of impacts. there is probably going to be something that is done officially, meaning something done by the government. i cannot see how something this monumental happens without some sort of official response. what that is, i just don't know. but there has to be some sort of response from the government, when it is something this seismic. but it also breaks my heart because japan is so special, the sense of safety and community and really a connection among neighbors and friends there that to see anything chip away at that is really heart breaking. during the sarin gas attacks in the 1990s, some of those attacks happened in connection to trash

cans. and all the trash cans disappeared after that. the japanese adjusted and you don't see trash cans anymore in the street, because that was a societal response. it is something that sweeping, and something that simple, but you really feel it when you live in the country. so i think there are going to be some significant changes, but it is really sort of that loss that i'm going to be looking for, and the one that is really going to break my heart. >> kyung, will, our thanks to both of you. other major news this morning, here in the united states, the highly anticipated june jobs report comes out just moments from now. stand by for that. plus, the january 6th committee set to hear from former trump white house counsel pat cipollone. what could come from this closed door videotaped interview. one of the youngest survivors of the highland park parade shooting is now paralyzed. the family spokesperson will join us on how he's doing this morning.

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shocking to hear that there was an assassination along these lines with a gun in japan. i've been to japan, and gun violence is, you know, basically very, very unheard of in japan. they have very strict gun control laws over there. and it was just such a shock to see a very popular former prime minister, only 67 years old now, gunned down the way he was by this assassin. this is a political assassination. i have no idea what the assassin's goal was, but it certainly was a stunning shock, not only to the people of japan, but people around the world, especially to those of us who have been to japan and have seen what a wonderful country it is. i quickly noted that the u.s. secretary of state tony blinken echoed what all of us feel when he said, this is a very, very, very sad moment. and rahm i emanuel, former

congressman, said abe has been an outstanding leader of japan and unwavering ally of the united states, which is true. he worked with so many u.s. presidents and other world leaders and he really did an amazing job and was just heart breaking to see that a former japanese prime minister was assassinated along these lines. and for those of our viewers old enough to remember, the assassination of president john f. kennedy in the united states, i'm sure for the people of japan that will go down along those l lines, a horrible moment that everyone will remember where they were when they first got word that prime minister abe had been assassinated. a shocking moment. >> longest serving prime minister in japan's history and very visible to people in the united states as well. having been the first japanese prime minister to go to hiroshima with a u.s. president, first japanese prime minister to go to pearl harbor with the u.s. president, very visible. you've also been in the news yourself the last day, because of a very, very interesting interview you had with ukrainian

president volodymyr zelenskyy, where you asked him specifically about something that is very much an issue now, which is if there were negotiations with russia to end this war, what would ukraine be willing to give up? would they give up territory? listen to his answer. >> translator: ukrainians are not ready to give up their land. as new territories of the russian federation. this is our land. we have always said this. and we will never give it up. >> never give it up, wolf. so what then, how then would negotiations happen? >> well, he's really counting on the united states and other nato allies to continue providing a lot of heavy artillery, a lot of major new weapons systems, to fight the russians. this has been a brutal war as all of us know. he was determined he repeatedly said to me, ukraine is not going to give up an inch, an inch, he used that word, of land to the

russians. they're going to continue to fight. they're going to continue to deal with this, despite the setbacks they're suffering right now in the eastern part of the country. he made it clear they're not negotiating with the russians and they're not going to give up anything and putin is going to pay the price for all of this, when all is said and done, ukraine will win. he was determined to make that point and he had really harsh words for putin himself. so it was a very, very strong statement from the ukrainian leader. >> i also want to listen to where you asked zelenskyy about putin calling him a nazi. >> when you hear putin accuse you and other ukrainie ian jews being nazis, is that painful for you. >> translator: it is just laughable, it is like a joke. it is like a caricature. i always thought it would stay in the past. it will never happen again and now it is returning. people who say these things, they're just sick.

you can't really laugh at sick people. a disease can be cured, but what i hear from them is a disease that can't be cured. >> it is a really interesting response that he gave you, wolf. >> yeah, he made it clear that he really -- it is obvious he hates putin for what putin is doing to ukraine. and the words that putin and other russians are uttering accusing him, and he's jewish, of being a nazi, and his family went through the holocaust, it is just something he can't -- he can't really understand why anyone would be making those accusations against him and other ukrainian jews who went through world war ii through the holocaust and then all of a sudden the russians invade ukraine and do what they're doing. so he is really angry. he's really determined to go ahead, as are the ukrainian people, i suspect, to fight this until they win, until they remove the russians from

ukraine. this war is going to go on. >> certainly is. wolf, we know normally you join us from the treadmill. we thank you this morning for coming on tv and being with us. it is great to see you. >> good to see you guys. thank you. you're doing a great job. >> thank you. you can catch wolf tonight "the situation room" at 5:00 eastern. he could be the most important witness yet for the january 6th committee, what pat cipollone knows and what he's willing to tell the committee. and cnn sits down with the families of the victims of the uvalde shooting, how they are reacting to the new report about the police response. age is just a number. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for mumuscle health. versus 16 grams in ensure high protein. boost® high protein also has key nutrients for immune support. boost® high protein.

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a key figure in the trump white house testifies before the january 6th committee today, former white house counsel pat cipollone, his deposition will be behind closed doors, but it will be videotaped. we could see excerpts at the remaining committee hearings, the public ones. joining us now, david loftman. thank you for being with us. they wanted cipollone to sit down, they're getting him, this is their one shot, what is the

committee doing? >> well, look, this has the potential to be an evidentiary bonanza for the committee, potentially for the department of justice. what we have been missing thus far to our knowledge is testimony by senior white house officials in direct proximity to former president trump, people in the room, this direct conversations with him. we know mr. cipollone was in that inner circle. we have every reason to believe that he had conversations with mr. trump about the matters that are squarely within the scope of the select committee's investigation, and the department of justice's investigation. we know that he pushed back on some of the wildest theories including the stop the steal, and election fraud theories. we have reason to believe he knew there was impending violence, prior to january 6th, we knew he was horrified by what he saw on january 6th. he may possess knowledge and be able to put words in trump's

mouth, which is the key really to potential progress by the department of justice, attributing knowledge to the president at key junctures, he should be able to do that, but we also may have to manage our expectations because as it has been reported, the committee has agreed to place limits on what mr. cipollone will testify to, including direct conversations with the president, which is kind of where the rubber hits the road here. we have to see how it all shakes out. but fingers crossed that we will be able to move the evidentiary needle with his appearance today. >> he's not exactly a hostile witness, but he's not the most cooperative one, say compared to a cassidy hutchinson that we have seen. so how is that going to play into this, how much discretion does he have to say, no, i'm not going to talk about this, that and the other thing and what does the committee have to push back on that, david? >> well, they already agreed to ground rules. we don't have a lot of visibility no what they are. "the washington post" i think reported that as in his april

interview the committee has agreed to place limits on what he'll be asked to testify to, including as reported direct conversations with the president. but there was a carveout apparently in april for conversations on january 6th, so we'll just have to wait to see, you know, what he agreed to testify to, and what they agreed he doesn't have to testify to. he's not going to be able to assert attorney/client privilege, the president wasn't his personal client, his client was the government of the united states, the office of the presidency. i don't think he's likely to be able to invoke executive privilege. that's a privilege held by the sitting occupant of the white house, president biden, not by the former occupant. so there may be a bit of a tug of war, but think at the end of the day, what he was looking for was a subpoena, sometimes referred to as a friendly subpoena, though i don't think he viewed it as particularly friendly here to give him ground cover with other conservatives. he had to come forward today, facing a subpoena, he didn't want to litigate this, this is a

guy who is a prominent member of the washington bar, he wants to have a career ahead of him in practicing law, wants to attract clients, wants to enjoy the esteem of his fellow members of the bar and i think he assessed it was in his best interest to come forward now. >> he did agree to have it videotaped, which does indicate he's okay with the american people seeing everything that he has to say, maybe even wants them to see it. one has to wonder. david laufman -- >> he knows how this movie is going to go. he knows the committee is going to assemble the greatest hits cassette tapes of his testimony and use it strategically as they have in other hearings. >> yeah. maybe he wants the american people to see that. david laufman, thank you very much. so we are minutes away now from this month's highly anticipated jobs report. we're going to give you a breakdown on what it says ahead.

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>> look, america's job machine is firing on all cylinders here. 372,000 jobs added back into the economy, strongest than expected and in line the last three months, which have also been very strong. 3.6% unemployment rate, again, this is the fourth month in a row at 3.6%. when you look at job creation month by month, you guys, look at that bar chart, we have a couple of revisions. march revised down slightly, april r revised down slightly. that's a 74,000 swing. this is still a very long stretch of strong job creation. 5.1% is the wage number. not bigger than inflation, of course, but it is showing you that paychecks are still rising and rising at the fastest pace they have in a long time. and it looks to me like this is pretty broad-based, the hiring we're seeing, professional and business services, that was an increase of 74,000 in june. leisure and hospitality adding back 64, 67,000 jobs,

healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, information systems, i mean, i go down this list and i see jobs created and added all down the line. now, where does that leave us? before this report we had added 7 million jobs in a year. that is remarkable pace of job creation. that's, you know, half a million a month on average over the past year. that's something the fed has been trying to cool down, this is part of the inflation story, at some point a very good job market is too good, and it becomes an inflation factor for the fed, the fed has been raising interest rates, we thought the numbers would start to slow, but just not yet, you guys. >> christine romans, make your way over here. joining us rahel solomon and zain asher. everyone wants jobs. adding jobs is a great thing. but it is inflationary. that's the problem. >> exactly it is an asterisk to it. it is also the fact that demand for workers has just been so incredibly strong, two jobs for every one or 1.9 jobs right now

for every one person looking. and the reason why this creates a tougher problem for the fed, a tougher job for the fed as christine pointed out is that when you have that type of imbalance in terms of demand for workers and supply of workers, companies have to raise wages to incentivize people to work for them. which is great news for workers, except if you're making more, but you can afford less, because of inflation, it is a vicious cycle. so the fed is clearly trying to get ahead of inflation, it is behind the curve, it is behind the ball, and today's jobs report makes it even more hard for them to handle this. >> just to add to what rahel is saying, this time last year, the fed was warning, look, there are inflationary pressures, but nothing to worry about, nothing to see here. earlier this year we were told, yes, we can admit we have a problem, however, 50 basis points should do the trick. then we got that devastating sort of cpi report last month, 8.6% in terms of price increases, the fed realizes we have to raise rates even more,

75 basis points. the fed is under so much pressure now to get this right, to achieve this so-called soft landing, to cool economic activity, without it leading to the big r word, recession. >> and it is interesting, right, because what would a recession look like with the unemployment rate so low, with job demand so strong, it is really puzzling a lot of people. >> it really is. you look at 3.6% unemployment rate but some are saying maybe we could be in a recession now. you could be in some weird place and i was talking to some economists about this, this morning, you have an economy which shrinks, but you still have a raging hot jobs market. it is very rare, weird situation. but you don't want the fed to throw a lot of people out of work, if it slows the economy down quickly because that's when recessions really hurt. they raise inequality, people at the lowest end of the income ladder get decimated in recessions. the fed has to walk this very, very carefully, and i don't know if they have the tools to do it carefully here at this point,

right? they're really behind the curve. ken rogath said he's angry at where we are in the economy. they got it so wrong. it didn't have to be this way. and now they have fewer tools to do this. he said he thinks they blink, actually, they're going to have to stop these really aggressive rate hikes because you just can't hurt people that badly by throwing them into recession just to cool inflation. >> so then what does it look like? >> it looks like maybe -- so if they had more cautious rate increases from here on out, he would have to all deal with higher inflation for a longer period of time. you have to -- the trade-off here is do you want to live with inflation or people losing their jobs? and there is no easy way out. >> and it is so important to note, though, there are many factors involved when it comes to sort of looking at the potential for recession. obviously the fed is going to be squarely focused on the labor market, but they're also going to be looking at what happens with gdp, the technical definition of a recession in this country is two straight quarters of negative gdp.

we saw that in the first quarter, a lot of economists believe there is a possibility, a possibility that we could see that again. but there are other factors involved including new factory orders, cpi that we get next week is going to be crucial for the fed right now, also consumer spending. consumer confidence. so many other factors involved in terms of the fed's ability to look at the bigger picture here. >> the nuance, there is so much nuance here, rahel. it is all nuance. you're in a situation where everyone is having to pay more for stuff. a lot more for stuff. but more people have jobs to get part of the way there. it is just so hard to juggle. >> it is an interesting point because we also have a lot more in our checking and our savings accounts because we weren't spending in part during the pandemic. so that has led to increased spending, right, and what you can sort of safely conclude is that as long as consumers are still spending, these companies are going to still continue to need workers, right.

and it is also just been such a tight labor market that if you're a company, and you just work so hard to get these jobs filled, they're going to be really hesitant to let them go until you absolutely have to. as long as consumers continue to spend, these companies are going to hold on to their workers and perhaps even continue to hire. >> strong jobs report, look, there are 11 million job openings. you saw all the job creation and they would hire more. there are 11 million job openings. i've never seen a moment where the -- the whole world is worried about recession, and workers have their choice of jobs essentially in this kind of a labor market. it is really interesting. >> what do you do if you're sitting at home, you have a job but you're strapped by inflation. what is the takeaway here? what is the long-term? >> it is so interesting. this time a year go the president could look at the numbers and tout them and boast about them. now that's completely changed. the name of the game is inflation. you got ordinary americans paying more in terms of higher gas prices, food prices, even

though they saved so much during the pandemic, they're eating into the savings. so biden will be blamed for this, even though his hands are tied, it is really the fed that can control this through monetary policy. >> he want to be blamed for a good jobs report. you celebrate a good jobs report. it doesn't help the inflation issue there. >> to your point, it is the nuance of what is a good jobs report in this environment? >> prepandemic, we would have been -- this would have been banner headlines a number like this. you can't believe it, it is a roaring american economy and that is not -- we look at the numbers like this today and we're like, this needs to slow down a little bit. >> christine, rahel, zain, thank you all so much. we're going to have much more ahead on the major breaking news this morning, the assassination of former japanese prime minister shinzo abe. shot twice in broad daylight. more of cnn's special live coverage. and an 8-year-old shot in the highland park july 4th parade shooting now paralyzed, cnn has learned.

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a scathing report that essentially concluded that 19 children and 2 teachers who died in the uvalde school massacre could have been saved has outraged families of the victims. cnn's shimon prokupecz spoke to some of them. he joins us now. these families want the truth, but it is still hard to hear. >> reporter: it is very hard to hear. but, john, the thing that is frustrating them so much, it is the way the information is coming out, authorities here are not even giving them any kind of meetings, direct meetings with the investigators. they're not giving them a heads up that these reports are coming out. so the families are very frustrated, they're upset, they're angry. we spoke to the father of a little girl, jackie casarez, we spoke to the sister of the teacher irma garcia, her son who has spoken for first time and

also her brother, irma garcia's brother, who happens to be a police officer, and, of course, their anger and frustration over the fact that police could not go in is just something that continues to fuel their anger. >> just because of all the lies, the deceitfulness from the begin i ing, it was just like putting salt on an open wound. just really hard because there's just so much suffering. and it is hard to grieve when there's no closure. >> reporter: when you say there's no closure, what are you looking for? >> people to be held accountable. we know that the shooter is dead. there's no one taking

accountability. no one. >> reporter: your daughter. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: when you hear about some of the new information that is now come out, what are you thinking? >> they're pointing the fingers, you know. if they're going to do that, you know what i mean, not be in charge, whoever was there should have done their job, and they didn't. whether it was cowardice or not -- they didn't follow orders. i don't know. all and all, they should have gone in and stopped, they're trained to stop an active shooter, that's the first thing they're supposed to do. they didn't do that. >> reporter: do you think officers are cowards? >> i do, yes. i can't say all of them, but the ones that were in there, obviously they were, they didn't do their job. >> reporter: i can't even imagine what you're thinking as a police officer when you hear about these failures. >> i live in santonio.

it took me 50 minutes to get from santonio to there, to come here to uvalde. they took 77. i love my brothers in blue, but this is like any profession, you know, this profession is not made for everybody, you know, it's fine and dandy, you know, you graduate from the academy, get the badge, but when it is time to suit up, when and stare death in the face, they went weak in the knees. >> one thing i don't want is those officers that were in those hallways, i want them to resign. >> reporter: you want all those officers gone that were in the hallway? >> yes. >> the minute i heard that, my mom was dead, i yelled out, i should have taken that bullet. because i'm in the military. i know what has to be done. i signed up for that.

my mom protected those kids, but no one protected her. so to hold the police department here, they're cowards. >> my daughter -- took a bullet to the heart. she fought hard to stay alive. these cowards couldn't go in. >> reporter: and, john, you know, we spoke to the mayor earlier this week who said there could be some changes here to the police department. he, of course, himself, is waiting to get more information. and the other thing, john, you can see in the video, we were in a room with at least 50 family members last night, relatives,

survivors, family members, whose kids survived, we got a chance to talk about some of what their kids are going through, are dealing with, and it is just horrific. and those stories are yet to be told. what their kids were seeing, what their kids were feeling, the smells, the sounds, as police officers, some of the kids could hear the police officers outside the door, the officers never came in. so there is still a lot of those stories to tell and obviously the accountability and the information that still needs to come, and that is for them, it is just taking too long. >> i know you're pushing for the answers, shimon. thank you for the work you're doing down there and please give our best to the families. >> re . this americans morning we're learning more about cooper roberts who was shot in the chest during the fourth of july parade, his spinal cord was severed leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. joining us is tony loizzi, the

spokesman for cooper's family. thank you for being with us. can you just tell us how cooper is doing? >> yes. good morning. cooper is still recovering from his most recent surgery, which was on wednesday night, where they finally were able to close up his belly and then we did get the prognosis that he would be paralyzed from his waist down. he is still on a ventilator. last i know he was still sedated and i think we're hoping that he'll wake up and have some consciousness today. and so to see if we can eventually next step would be to get him off the ventilator. >> how many surgeries has he had? >> off hand i think we're at about three or four at this time. he had his heart was hit, his esophagus was hit, and obviously, like you said, his spinal cord was severed. they had to repair the heart and the esophagus first and went in to see what they could do about the spinal cord, but there was

not much they could do. >> this is one fighter of a little boy. can you tell us about the road to recovery that he has ahead of him? >> everybody obviously knows it will be a long road. a lot of therapy, a lot of treatment, potentially more surgeries, and then it is going to be a new normal for him moving forward. obviously he won't be able to walk. he was a very active little boy, active in soccer, baseball, loved sports, loved his little -- loves his little brother, they're just like partners in crime, best friends. and it is just going to be a new way of life for him moving forward. >> he actually received cpr from a stranger from texas, who was in illinois visiting his family. i want to play what he said. >> he was not responsive. so i just prayed over him, tried to help him the best i could.

i tried to get some chest compressions on the boy, and then someone came over and told me they're a doctor, so i asked him if he could take over. i felt he was more qualified and my son was missing. and quite frankly my mind was there, i was trying to -- i couldn't focus. my own son is missing. that was front of mine, top priority. >> he focused enough to get to be that bridge to the doctor, has anyone in the family or you been able to touch base with bryant? >> not yet. but we have had people reach out and say that when they're ready, that they definitely want to set up that connection. keely and her husband jason, the parents, are so 100% focused at being at cooper's side now. keely was shot twice in the leg, and had several surgeries, demanded to be discharged so she could be with her son cooper who was at a different hospital. so they're just 100% focusing on him right now. and trying to pull him through

this tough time. >> and we know his brother was hit with some shrapnel in the shooting as well. so, tony, thank you so much for being with us. all of our best to the family, to cooper, and to keely as they're recovering. we certainly appreciate you being with us. >> thank you so much. and any support and help, they do have a go fund me page up, and any and all support would be great. thank you for having us this morning. >> okay, i'll make sure we get that out on social media, tony. thank you again for being with us. >> thank you. so ahead, cnn's coverage of the assassination of former japanese prime minister shinzo abe continues. the statesman shot to death in broad daylight earlier today. global reaction is now pouring in. when you have technology that's easier to c control... ththat can scale across all your clouds... we got that right? yeah, we got that. it's easier to be an innovator. so you can do more incredible things.

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and inclusion. we're changing the dynamics of the way people think about food, the way people use food. this work is changing people's lives. ? y >> you can see bobby's full story at cnnheroes.com. and cnn's special live coverage continues right now. good morning. i'm erica hill. >> and i'm jim sciutto. we are following several breaking stories this hour, but, first, former japanese prime minister shinzo abe is dead after being shot during a campaign speech outside of osaka. that moment caught on video. we do want to warn you, it is shocking to see.